AI Impact Summit to yield minimum 15 deliverables, says IT Ministry official

“The final deliverables will be announced at the summit, but there will be at least fifteen concrete ones,” Mr. Singh said. The government has made arrangements to accommodate over 1.5 lakh visitors at Bharat Mandapam, the exposition centre that hosted the G20 Summit in 2023. Officials indicated that attendance could match or even exceed the turnout recorded during the 2023 event. 

It remains unclear whether the outcomes will lead to the formation of a multilateral body to deal with AI governance and ethics. MeitY secretary S. Krishnan, in an interview with The Hindu, said, “Whether there will be another international body like the International Solar Alliance, I don’t really know. We may not do it as a regular body.” 

That would be in line with India’s other multistakeholder approaches on AI so far. India’s AI Safety Institute—a concept that many countries are adopting, by either creating new institutes or designating existing research bodies as AISIs—was launched as a virtual body of researchers from different Indian Institutes of Technology and other universities.